Conclusions and Recommendations for the Social Studies

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Conclusions and Recommendations such tests of honesty and service as have thus far been made are mere trivialities .

5. Finally, as in the case of the intelligence tests,

if the findings and measurements of testing with respect to character and culture are taken at their

face value, no conclusions with respect to social

policy and action automatically emerge from such findings and measurements . E. TESTS OF CLASSROOM PRODUCTS i . From the standpoint of the teaching of the

social sciences, the new-type tests for measuring

the results of instruction in scholastic terms and

in the lower ranges of social knowledge and thought constitute the only significant contribution of the testing movement.

2 . These tests, which represent an effort to im-

prove upon the traditional examination, vary

much in form, content, and purpose, but are all alike in that they strive after objectivity and the

elimination of all subjective and personal factors from the appraisal of pupil performance on the tests. 96


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